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Here are photos of Urban Nebula, a sculptural installation by Zaha Hadid on the South Bank in London, created as part of the London Design Festival. More »

Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has teamed up with Swarovski Crystal Palace, sponsors of this year’s London Design Festival, to create a series of short movies recording the highlights of the festival, which started this weekend. More »

Designer Assa Ashuach presents a new body of work at Rabih Hage Gallery in London later this month. More »

Jasper Morrison has updated his website with images of recent work, including this limited edition, polished aluminium stool, designed for the Tabourets (Stools) exhibition at Galerie Kreo in Paris (until 13 October). More »

Nosigner is a new design brand that will be showing at 100% Design in London later this week, during the London Design Festival. More »

Copenhagen architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have won the competition for the new Danish Maritime Museum in Helsingor. More »

California Pastoral is a vinyl mural created by artist-architect Jeremy Quinn for the offices of United States Artists, an artists’ support organisation based in Los Angeles. More »

Here are images of the four projects that have been shortlisted for this year’s Manser Medal, an award given by the RIBA for the best new house or extension in the UK. Above: Kander House, London by Jamie Fobert Architects (photos by Sue Barr) More »

Designers in Residence opened at the Design Museum in London last night, marking the unofficial start of the London Design Festival (which doesn’t officially launch until Monday). More »

The Guardian newspaper presents a slideshow and feature about the nearly completed new terminal at Beijing’s international airport, designed by architects Foster + Partners. More »

The final story we’ve lifted from MIMOA is the Franz Liszt Concert Hall at Raiding in Austria by Rotterdam architects Atelier Kempe Thill. More »

Here’s our second project from new online architecture guide MIMOA: a cemetery overlooking the sea at Ortona in Italy by architect Giovanni Vaccarini. More »

This is the first of three projects we found on MIMOA, the new online architecture guide we wrote about in the previous post. More »

Mi Modern Architecture (MIMOA.eu) is a new online architecture guide to Europe that presents images and texts about buildings as well as Google maps showing you how to find them. More »

Toyo Ito’s office has sent us a set of photos and a description of the architect’s newly completed Tama Art University Library in Tokyo. More »